Main Event Day 3 | 2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

Main Event

Day 3 Started

10-02-2010 10:33 UTC

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Allen Kessler	62.600	1	1
Alex Kravchenko	527.400	1	2
Yuriten Bokkel	116.800	1	3
Keven Stammen	139.300	1	4
Patrick Carron	169.000	1	5
Erik Van Dijk	245.900	1	6
Jason DeWitt	335.500	1	7
Daniel Rudd	289.500	1	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Mattias Lannermark	142.100	2	1
Eric Qu	253.100	2	2
Eric Haik	313.300	2	3
Jason Gray	133.900	2	4
Marton Czuczor	148.500	2	5
Jimmy Ostensson	144.800	2	6
Guillaume Rivet	80.700	2	7
Vanessa Yiping Peng	160.900	2	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Noah Boeken	89.600	3	1
Nicky Lee Evans	79.800	3	2
Nik Persaud	85.400	3	3
Antonio Palma	111.500	3	4
Jason Wheeler	148.900	3	5
Craig Hopkins	53.300	3	6
Eduardo Santi	20.600	3	7
Jude Ainsworth	97.100	3	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Robin Keston	84.600	4	1
Eric Baldwin	134.400	4	2
Steffen Lameli	33.300	4	3
Joshua Tekesky	192.600	4	4
Adolfo Vaeza	276.400	4	5
Jeff Sarwer	116.400	4	6
John Hall	513.900	4	7
Peyman Luth	338.000	4	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Tomas Macnamara	535.800	5	1
Phil Ivey	303.700	5	2
Phillippe Ktorza	42.000	5	3
Robert Nulli	226.500	5	4
Chance Kornuth	231.000	5	5
Arnaud Mattern	366.200	5	6
Jannick Wrang	156.900	5	7
Jake Cody	234.900	5	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Rumit Somaiya	364.400	6	1
Konstantin Bucherl	265.800	6	2
Pusztai Balint	272.000	6	3
Gustavo Zito	326.800	6	4
Tim Finne	68.800	6	5
Barkatul Mohammed	273.300	6	6
Kimmo Kurko	165.100	6	7
Allen Bari	281.400	6	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
David Steicke	170.000	7	1
JP Kelly	101.200	7	2
Thomas Bichon	373.000	7	3
Chris Bjorin	95.000	7	4
Mikulik Taras	92.300	7	5
Masaaki Kagawa	379.000	7	6
Juan Maceiras	124.800	7	7
Alex Gomes	210.300	7	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Kevin Eyster	397.300	8	1
Danny Toffel	116.900	8	2
Kyle Bowker	276.100	8	3
Tony Cascarino	203.800	8	4
Christopher Tighe	91.200	8	5
George Abdallah	92.100	8	6
Joe Hachem	185.100	8	7
Bruce Atkinson	111.000	8	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Marty Smyth	124.000	9	1
Jamie Brown	457.900	9	2
David Vamplew	1.130.400	9	3
Artur Wasek	197.800	9	4
Martin Hansen	82.700	9	5
Tommy Westerlund	29.100	9	6
Hans Varsi	99.300	9	7
Benny Spindler	621.700	9	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Daniel Negreanu	66.200	10	1
Emanuele Rugini	88.900	10	2
Wayne Scott	190.300	10	3
Gordon Huntley	140.700	10	4
Luca Falaschi	88.900	10	5
Christophe De Meulder	65.300	10	6
Nicholas Katz	147.300	10	7
Fintan Gavin	172.100	10	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Yury Esaulov	102.400	11	1
Kenneth Hicks	484.600	11	2
Kamal Choraria	137.300	11	3
Ilya Gorodetskiy	83.200	11	4
Dominique Franchi	220.400	11	5
Claudio Cecchi	254.600	11	6
[Removed:413]	177.900	11	7
Wojciech Jankiewicz	68.600	11	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Joel Nordkvist	100.400	12	1
Matt Perrins	210.100	12	2
Joep van den Bijgaart	143.200	12	3
John O'Shea	273.000	12	4
Christian Harder	128.800	12	5
Kevin Stani	362.300	12	6
John Dolan	93.600	12	7
Waseem Ahmed	84.000	12	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Femi Fakinle	188.100	13	1
Max Steinberg	198.700	13	2
John Juanda	215.000	13	3
Cherif Zacca	413.400	13	4
Fernando Brito	281.300	13	5
Steven Levy	640.300	13	6
Greg Raymer	185.700	13	7
Gabriel Alarie	163.100	13	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Alain Roy	48.300	14	1
Steve Jelinek	135.700	14	2
Salvatore Bonavena	76.400	14	3
Teddy Sheringham	153.400	14	4
Laurent Carbonnel	47.100	14	5
Nichlas Mattsson	61.700	14	6
Lukas Baumer	122.800	14	7
Kayvan Payman	396.500	14	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Christophe Benzimra	63.200	15	1
Jamie Burland	252.000	15	2
David Rheem	103.500	15	3
Michel Abecassis	210.000	15	4
Chad Brown	97.100	15	5
Scott Palmer	218.000	15	6
Per Ummer	254.800	15	7
Henrik Tollefsen	324.600	15	8

Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Narendra Banwari	238.800	16	1
Thomas Marchese	180.000	16	2
Pim de Goede	289.500	16	3
Ramzi Jelassi	99.800	16	4
Robert Trevor Akery	190.700	16	5
Claire Renaut	103.700	16	6
Leo Fernandez	98.000	16	7
Benjamin Vinson	134.300	16	8

Welcome back to our continuing coverage of the largest tournament this country has ever seen! It's the Season 7 edition of the PokerStars.com EPT London, and it's been a record setting, pro-heavy couple days to get us from the 848 starters down to the last 128. The bubble burst late last night, and those who still had chips left to bag are all guaranteed a payday upon their exits.

Whenever that may be. We've still got three full days of poker to play, and it's going to be a battle to accumulate chips and dodge elimination from here forward.

That chip accumulation thing has gone awfully well for David Vamplew so far. He's got the big stack here near the midway point, and his count of well over a million chips gives him a significant percentage of the chips in play. He's trailed by Steven Levy, and the Skype-emo-smiley-lookalike Benny Spindler is in a familiar spot in the top five as well. This is the second straight year that Spindler finds himself with heaps of chips running deep at EPT London. His run took him all the way to 12th place last year, and he'll be looking to do about 11 spots better than that this time around.

Phil Ivey's still alive with plenty of chips to do some damage, as are a host of other bracelet winners like JP Kelly, Chance Kornuth, Daniel Negreanu, Marty Smtyh, Chris Bjorin, Alex Kravchenko, and former WSOP World Champions Joe Hachem and Greg Raymer, as well as 2008 WSOPE Main Event winner John Juanda. There's also one guy left who has a shot at the 2010 WSOP Main Event bracelet; November Niner John Dolan begins the day with just under 100,000 chips.

It's going to be a good one today, and we're just about 15 minutes from getting rolling. Grab yourself a spot of tea and something to munch on, and we'll be right back when the cards go flying.

Level: 15

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 400

10-02-2010 11:16 UTC

Go Westerlund

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Just a hand or two in and chip leader David Vamplew has already busted the table short stack.

Tommy Westerlund had less than 30,000 chips to his name when he got it in with {4-Spades} {4-Clubs} against Vamplew's {a-Diamonds} {j-Spades} .

Board: {q-Clubs} {3-Clubs} {9-Clubs} {j-Diamonds} {7-Spades}

Tags: David Vamplew Tommy Westerlund

10-02-2010 11:23 UTC

Jeff's Dream Sarwers

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Jeff Sarwer has just been eliminated after he pushed all-in on the turn of an {10-Spades} {4-Hearts} {A-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} board with {A-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} against Joshua Tekesky's {A-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} . The {4-Diamonds} paired the river and Sarwer was forced to become one of the first players to head to the cashier.

Tags: Jeff Sarwer

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

10-02-2010 11:24 UTC

Negreanu Doubles

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Daniel Negreanu open-shoved for 64,600 and it folded right around to Nicholas Katz in the big blind who gave it some good thought and, despite Negreanu's best attempts to talk him out of it, made the call. A few minutes later the TV cameras arrived and the cards were on their backs.

"Hey good luck in the high rollers," said tablemate Christophe de Meulder, pointing all the way over to the next table where the high roller event is already in progress.

Negreanu: {k-Hearts} {j-Clubs}
Katz: {a-Hearts} {q-Diamonds}

Board: {k-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds} {q-Clubs} (Negreanu: "King! King, king, for me!") {7-Hearts} {8-Diamonds}

Negreanu doubled to around 135,000 and the high rollers are going to have to wait as Negreanu is back in the game here in the Main Event.

The unhappy Katz was left with around 80,000.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu Nicholas Katz

10-02-2010 11:33 UTC

Also Busting

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Over on the next table from Negreanu, Wojciech Jankiewicz was getting his short stack in with {6-Diamonds} {6-Spades} against Kamal Choraria's {q-Clubs} {q-Diamonds} . He failed to hit anything on the {j-Spades} {k-Clubs} {7-Spades} {8-Diamonds} {3-Spades} board, and hit the rail with a min-cash instead.

10-02-2010 11:48 UTC

Lights...Cameras...Action

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It's been a frenetic start to day 3 as people have been busting out all over the shop, one of the few stacks to double was Martin Hansen who pushed with {K-Clubs} {9-Clubs} against Benny Spindler's {A-Hearts} {J-Spades} and managed to get there in the end on a {3-Clubs} {8-Spades} {6-Hearts} {J-Clubs} {2-Clubs} board.

Elsewhere, Jason Wheeler cracked Eduardo Santi's {A-Hearts} {A-Spades} with the lowly {6-Clubs} {3-Clubs} on a {6-Hearts} {6-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} {4-Hearts} board to knock him out before also eliminating Noah Boeken with {K-Hearts} against on a {K-Clubs} {9-Hearts} {J-Spades} {8-Spades} board.

Finally Tony Cascarino has knocked out the short-stack Christopher Tighe (who started the day with 92,000 not 920,000) with {A-Clubs} {K-Diamonds} against {A-Diamonds} {J-Clubs}

2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

Day 3 Seat Draw

It's Moving Day

Go Westerlund

Jeff's Dream Sarwers

Negreanu Doubles

Also Busting

Lights...Cameras...Action